Ticket-destroyer.



J. M.- SMITH. TICKET DBSTROYER.

APPLIOATION FILED 13170.12, 1905.

IHE NORRIS PETERS cm, WASHINGTON, n. c

PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

JOHN MAITLAND SMITH, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

TlCKET-DESTROYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed December 12, 1905. Serial No. 291,480.

-' of the city of Toronto, in the county of York,

in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Destroyers, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ticket-destroyers; and the object of the invention is to devise a simple cheap form of receptacle for destroying tickets after they have been used and in which they may be rapidly and quickly burned to ashes; and it consists, essentially, of a suitable casing provided with a door andsmokaflue, a woven wire cylinder provided. with suitable ends and having hollow spindles which extend through bearin s in the ends of the casing, one end of the hollow spindle being provided with a handle, end disks located within the cylinder connected by cross-bars, two of which have inwardly-extending projections and the one a roller loosely journaled on same, the said disks having spindles extending into the hollow spindles connected to the ends of the main cylinder and provided with a crankhandle at the end of one of the spindles, preferably on the opposite side to the handle connected to the hollow spindle, the parts be ing otherwise arranged and constructed in detail, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved ticket-destroyer, part of the casing being broken away to exhibit the construction. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the destroyer. Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the casing, which may be made of steel or 1sheet metal or any other suitable mater1a B is the door in which the tickets to be destroyed are inserted.

C is the ash-door, D the flue, and E a cylinder, which is made perforated and preferably in the form of woven-wire cloth.

The ends of the woven Wire are secured to the end disks F and F, from which extend the hollow central spindles G and G, which extend through the ends of the casings and are suitably held in ournals A therein. The spindle G is provided with a crank-handle G as indicated.

H is a gas-burner which extends into the bottom of the casing underneath the cylinder E. The cylinder E is provided with a longitudinal opening which is closed by a suitable arc-shaped gate I, of woven-wire cloth, bound by a suitable frame I. v

J indicates stitfening-bars connecting the ends F F of the cylinder and located outside of the woven wire. One side of the frame of the gate I is hinged to one of these bars and the opposite. end is connected to another by means of the thumb-screws, which extend through slots in the frame I into one of the bars J.

To open the gate, it is simply necessary to turn the thumb-screws so that the heads are lengthwise with the slots.

K designates disks located within the cylinder E and having spindles K K which extend into the hollow spindles G and G, respectively. The spindle K is provided with a crank-handle K K designates bars connecting the disks K and provided with inwardly-extending spikes or projections K K is a round bar connecting the disks K and provided with a roller K ,.loosely journaled thereon.

L is a pin adapted to be inserted through one of the journals into the hollow spindle Or, so as to hold the woven-wire cylinder from revolving, if desired, and L is a pin extending through the journal at the opposite side into the spindle K and designed to hold such spindle from revolving when desired. Under ordinary circumstances these pins are not inserted in position, but hang by chains from the exterior of the cylinder, as indicated.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The tickets are inserted through the openings closed by the door B and the gate I into the interior of the cylinder, after which the gate and door are closed. The burner H is then lighted and the handle G turned so as to rotate with the cylinder. The tickets are then agitated by means of the bars K and projections K as well as the roller K coming in contact therewith.

In operating my cylinder the bars may be held stationary by the pin L or they may be left loose, as desired. After the tickets have been reduced to ashes the pin L may be inserted into the spindle G, if desired, in order to hold the cylinder E stationary, and the pin L may be withdrawn and the handle K turned, so as to revolve the bars within the stationary cylinder, and especially the bar K", carrying roller K, which will serve to free the mesh of the woven wire of any burned matter which may tend to clog it.

It will be noticed that the interior of the casing is provided with an inner lining A which I preferably make of asbestos or other suitable heat-non-conducting material, so as to confine the heat within the casing.

Although I describe my invention as applied to thedestruction of tickets by burning, it will of course be understood that my invention may be applied to the destruction of other matter, such as checks, bank-notes, and other valuable securities.

In the door of the receptacle I may of course provide any suitable form of damper or opening, whereby the condition of the contents may be readily ascertained, as the door will of course be kept locked. i

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination with the casing provided with a suitable door and flue, of a perforated cylinder suitably journaled in the casing and provided with a turnin means, and gate, a burner located beneath the cylinder and a loose bar eccentrically located withifin the cylinder as and for the purpose specied.

2. The combination with the casing, of a perforated cylinder having the hollow spindles suitably journaled in the ends of the cas ing and provided with a crank-handle, end. disks located within the cylinder, cross-bars connecting them, spindles extending -ou.t

-wardly from the end disks into the hollow spindles and a crank-handle connected to one of these spindles as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination with the casing, of a perforated cylinder having the hollow spindles suitably journaled in the ends of the casing and provided with a crank-handle, end disks located within the cylinder, crossbars connecting them, one of which is provided with projections and the other with a roller loosely ournaled thereon, spindles eX- tending outwardly from the end disks into the hollow spindle and a crank-handle connected to one of these spindles as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination with the casing, of a perforated cylinder having hollow spindles journaled in the walls of the case, means connected to one of the spindles for rotating the cylinder, an agitating device located within the cylinder and having spindles journaled in the said hollow spindles, and means connected to one of the spindles of the agitating device for rotating it, and means for locking the spindles of the cylinder and agitating device together.

5. The combination with the casing having a suitable feed-door and smoke-flue, of a perforated cylinder suitably journaled in the casing and provided with a turning means and gate, and bars independently supported within the cylinder and extending longitudinally of the same and having inwardly-extending teeth as specified.

6. In a ticket-destroyer, the combination with the casing having a suitable feed-door and smoke-flue, of a perforatedcylinder suitably journaled in the casing and provided with a turning means and gate, and a round bar independently supported in proximity to the inner perimeter of the cylinder and having a roller journaled thereon for pulverizing, dislodging and discharging the burned tickets through the perforated mesh of the cylinder as specified.

JOHN MAITLAND SMITH.

Witnesses:

B. BOYD, E. MGEAOHERN. 

